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TAMPA WEB COMPANY HOSTED SITE CALLED VITAL TO AL-QAIDA IN THE SAME BUILDING AS THE U.S. ATTORNEY A computer program that is said to give al-Qaida greater communications capabilities, hosted on what some consider "arguably" the most significant al- Qaida Web site, was hosted until 1/28/08 by a Tampa company in the same building as the United States attorney's office. The company took down the site after a phone call from The Tampa Tribune. NOC4Hosts Inc located in Tampa, Fl at 400 North Tampa St ., is apparently offering a new version of software that was designed to help al-Qaeda supporters encrypt their Internet communications. _________________________________________________ New Report urges censorship of Jihadi websites promoting “extremist ideologies” The report (see here) finally calls on Internet Service Providers (ISPS) to suppress web use directly supporting terrorist activities, but not other expressions of extremist thought. “Since violent extremists, like hackers, will continue to be able to circumvent the law, as well as rules and restrictions set up by the sites themselves, ISPs should continue to work with government to track down those who post imminent threats to peace and security through the form of terrorist acts. To continue to allow al-Qaida supported websites to exist in the USA in order to possibly obtain Intel is archaic, out-dated and dangerous reasoning and has no place in the real world of fighting the Cyber- Jihad. The web hosting companies in the USA are the key to shut down Al-Qaida websites such as the ones that were operating in places such as Tampa (see here) and Phoenix (see here). Less attention has been given until very recently to how digital media are deployed to create publicity and spread propaganda and fund raise. Many Islamic charitable organizations allow users to make a contribution online, for instance, while some terrorist organizations use front companies and charitable organizations under their control to receive such donations. Series of photos above were obtained on May 7th 2007 from the al-Qaida website www.alhesbah.net (now shut down), that depicts a man by the name of Rahim Karim who was a member of the Islamic Army in Iraq, as he prepares to go on a suicide car bomb mission against a US supply convoy, his last words as he left were " Zarqawi Forever, God is great" As governments around the world become increasingly aware of the role of the Internet in disseminating and facilitating terrorist activities and organizing a move is afoot to confront that threat through censorship of information promoting “extremist ideologies”. In January 2008 in the UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced a new crackdown on Web sites (see here) that promote violent Muslim extremism. The UK policy is to track down and remove Illegal material on the Internet aimed at recruiting susceptible people into terrorism following the same tactics already used to combat online pedophiles. In the US, Congress in October 2007 approved the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, a law that establishes a new federal commission tasked with investigating Americans with "extremist belief systems" and those who may engage in "ideologically based violence." S.B. 1959, the Senate version of the bill, introduced by Sen. Collins (R-Me.) is currently being considered by Senate Homeland Security Committee. Sarasota Private Investigator Bill Warner. _________________________________________ Terrorist web sites are being hosted by U.S. companies TAMPA (Bay News 9) There are radical Islamic web sites now being hosted by U.S. companies and possibly even in Tampa. Sarasota private investigator Bill Warner said last year he discovered what is known as one of the largest jihadist web sites currently online being hosted through a Tampa WEB co. "This is how you sign up with al-Qaida now," Warner said. "You don't have to go to Pakistan or Afghanistan anymore. You do it on the Internet. Explosives training, arms training, everything you need is on these web sites 24/7; jihad central." Web hosting companies in the U.S. have expanding bandwidth and security encryption, exactly what terror organizations such as al-Qaida are looking for. Watch the story ......VIDEO HERE In a flash video on one of the sites homepage an American minesweeper is blown up in Iraq and what appears to be al- Qaida fighters firing on U.S. troops. In the forum section the user can find a detailed report of the death and destruction terrorists caused U.S. troops in Iraq just last month. Bay News 9 contacted the Tampa based web hosting company about the site. And although late last year the sites IP address traced to NOC4Hosts Inc. in Tampa, the site now takes on a different IP address corresponding with a host in Amman, Jordan. Web hosting general manager Steve Eschweiler told us in a statement that although it doesn't appear NOC4Hosts ever hosted this terrorist web site the company hosts: "...hundreds of thousands of web sites on several thousand servers for several thousand customers located in over 40 countries worldwide, Eschweiler said. "If we are notified of any abuse we either null-route the IP, immediately pull the server offline or contact the proper authorities depending on the nature of the infraction. __________________________________________ The Cars of ALQaeda, in Iraq used as car bombs: How Private Detective Bill Warner in Florida discovered a new global terrorist connection Written by Atty. John Loftus, www.john-loftus.com Update-2/10/08 Used car sales fund al-Qaeda. What if Al Qaeda has found a new method to launder money around the world ? In his July5, 2005 testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, terrorism expert Steven Emerson made a chilling prophecy. He said that he would not be surprised someday to find an international network of stolen car rings raising money for terrorism, and shipping cars to the Middle East to be made into car bombs. Emerson did not know that Bill Warner, a Florida Private Investigator had been secretly working on this issue since 2002. Warner has uncovered documentary evidence that stolen cars from Florida were being shipped to Al Qaeda front companies in Dubai, U.A.E., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Aqqaba, Jordan. Furthermore, Warner claims that he has provided Federal agencies with a "smoking gun" document; a copy of the bill of lading from a Tampa used car lot shipping a vehicle directly to what appears to be an Al Qaeda front company in Saudi Arabia. Even more embarrassing to the FBI, Warner showed the federal agents that the suspected used car lots in Florida all had a common link: these used car lots were either owned by convicted terrorist Sami Al Arian or run by one of his associates. Warner’s evidence has been analyzed by an organization of active and retired police, military and intelligence professionals, wwwIntelligenceSummit.org. Their conclusion is that Warner has indeed uncovered an huge car smuggling ring that finances terrorism with "trade based money laundering". At first, authorities were incredulous that a terrorist financing network so large could have escaped their attention. Partly as a result of Warner’s ground breaking discoveries, arrests of Muslim car dealers connected to money laundering for terrorism have now been made in at least twenty five cities around the world, including Salt Lake City Utah, Anaheim CA, Chicago IL, Buffalo NY, Houston TX, St. Louis MO, Toledo OH, Tampa FL, Sarasota Fl, Los Angeles CA, Tustin CA, Arlington VA, Miramar FL, Madrid Spain, Jeddah SA, Medina SA, Jebail SA, Hamburg GR, Niggiat Japan, Dubai UAE, Tangier Morocco, London UK, Amman Jordan, Toronto CA, Kuwait, and Belfast. The amounts of money involved are staggering. According to law enforcement surveillance, each car lot could ship an average of five used cars a month to the Middle East, where they have been resold for $30,000 to $45,000 (with some luxury cars selling as high as $75,000). That could earn as much as a quarter of a million dollars per month, or three million per year per car lot. Just from the few dozen car lots that are know to law enforcement, terrorist groups have the potential to raise close to one hundred million dollars per year. Al Qaeda’s car smuggling system has been in operation for more than a decade. Conservatively, more than a billion dollars from the car connection has gone to the cause of global terrorism in the last ten years. In the meantime, the cars keep loading on roll on-roll off ships, the car bombs keep killing the innocent in Iraq. Sarasota Private Investigator Bill Warner _____________________________________________ UPDATE: Al Qaeda's Stolen cars. 3/28/07 The Iraqi Coast Guard seizes four tankers carrying smuggled cars in the Shatt Al-Arab channel South of Basra. (See Iraqi News story below), this just 5 days after the Iran Coast Guard captured 15 Brit sailors and marines who had boarded a ship with possible smuggled cars in the Shatt Al- Arab channel South of Basra near the Karun river, see a pattern here ? This is what it is all about, the smuggled cars most likely came from Dubai UAE (sse map) and prior to that Tampa or Savannah USA. U.K. demands release of sailors as tensions rise CTV.ca News Staff. The members of the Royal Navy were detained in the Persian Gulf after boarding a merchant ship they believed was being used to smuggle cars into Iraq, said CTV's London Bureau Chief Tom Kennedy. Britain said the incident took place in Iraqi waters where it has UN permission to routinely board and search merchant vessels in the Shatt Al- Arab channel South of Basra. The Iraqi Coast Guard seizes four tankers carrying smuggled cars. Coastguards managed last night to seize four Iraqi tankers carrying smuggled cars at the entrance to Shatt Al-Arab channel south of Basra city. Back on Nov. 18th 2004 a SUV registered in Texas was found in a Fallujah bomb factory, this Texas SUV came off of a Houston import/export used car dealers lot and was shipped to Dubai UAE and into Basra Iraq via a merchant tanker just as seen in the recent tanker seizers. I have posted about this vehicle as far back as 2004 it has been seen on this web site since then, see below. The used car dealer who sent the SUV to Iraq from Houston (a Iraqi national) was not arrested even though the VIN on the SUV traced back to his Houston Used Car lot, as he is not the registered owner and he sends vehicles into Iraq all the time, " Not My car, I just sell them", yeah right. The shipment of used cars to Iraq by import/export dealers in the USA has been a source of funding since at least Feb. 2003. ___________________________ Dateline's Chris Hansen, NBC Investigative reporter, finds Used Car Importer in Benin with merchandise purchased with hot USA credit cards. Tuesday 4/03/2007 "We’re on the hunt for “Wendy,” the woman in seductive photos who conned Jeff into shipping what turned out to be merchandise purchased with stolen credit card"s. Like an expensive home theater system it was so big it cost more than $2,000 to ship. We’re on the trail of that home theater system because we think it might lead us to “Wendy,” down this dusty road, in the tiny African nation of Benin. Benin, a former French colony, was a hub back during the time of the slave trade and today, is increasingly a hub for identity thieves. Busy African markets are where some of the merchandise ordered from stolen American credit cards can show up. The identity thieves didn’t pay a dime for the things they got, so even if they sell them cheap, they still make a huge profit. It’s not an easy or a safe place for American journalists to operate. We’re not sure who we can trust and don’t know if the criminals have corrupted any local officials. So we proceed with caution. Down the road, we find the address where “Wendy” told Jeff Ball to ship the home theatre system. Chris Hansen (on hidden camera): Ali Angelo Tchao... Neighbor: Ah oui... Chris Hansen: Yeah, Tchao lives there? Neighbor: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hansen: Do you know him? A neighbor tells us Mr. Tchao is at work. Neighbor: He’s working at port. Hansen: Where? At the port. Neighbor: Yes. Hansen: What does he do at the port, Car Importer Neighbor: Well, some people come from Nigerias, come meet here to buy cars. Hansen: So, he buys the cars here and sells them in Nigeria... Neighbor: Yes, yes. Hansen: Do you think it’s okay if go back and ask? Apparently, Mr. Tchao is involved in the import-export business. (used car racket) It certainly doesn’t look like he’s got a theater system at his home down an alley. Hansen: We’re asking about a delivery. A big delivery from DHL. It’s to the home of a man named Mr. Tchao (the used car import export dealer). Another used car import/export dealer has been exposed, this time he is involved with international credit card theft that was based out of the USA, he was importing/exporting cars to/from Nigeria. Nigeria, where the men came from to meet Mr. Tchao, is a hot bed of stolen car activity with vehicles shipped from the UK and elsewhere, it appears in this particular instance that the cars are being shipped from the UK to Porto-Novo in Benin West Africa and then transferred to Nigeria, see UK News story below on the arrest of a UK car theft ring that was shipping cars to Nigeria last year. UK News Car theft gang smashed...... Sept. 1st 2006 This is the moment a ruthless £1 million-a- year gang, which stole 120 cars a month stripping them down for spares in hours, was smashed by police. Prestige motors, most of them Mercedes, were stolen to order from residential streets all over London by the highly organized crooks. They were then delivered to a shabby scrapyard in east London where expert mechanics immediately set about removing every useful part, leaving just the shells, which were crushed. A police source said: "The only way I can describe it is like an industrial production line. They were incredibly professional, like a Formula 1 pit crew but in reverse." Within hours of being stolen, the cars no longer existed, often before their owners even knew they were missing. Police believe the international crooks, the biggest car theft gang in London, were shipping the engines, gearboxes and other parts to West Africa where they fetch a high price for use in taxis. The parts from the stolen cars were broken down with special industrial equipment before being shipped by container ship to Nigeria. The shells were taken away and crushed for scrap, leaving no trace that the cars ever existed. The gang also occasionally stole luxury cars to be shipped whole to customers who had specifically ordered them. Detectives found a £40,000 BMW X5, a flashy 4x4 favoured by Premiership footballers, which they believe was destined for a Nigerian crime boss. Three black men, believed to be Nigerian, one aged 45 and two aged 43, were arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and money laundering. Four Britons from south London aged 54, 32, 27 and 16, were arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods. _________________________________________________ IRAQ CHLORINE TRUCK BOMB FACTORY RAIDED The raid on the car bomb factory occurred late Tuesday, 2/20/07, near Karmah, in Anbar, U.S. authorities said. U.S. troops discovered a pickup truck and three other vehicles that were being prepared as car bombs, as well as detonation material in five buildings, chlorine in 2 gallon size "blue" jugs. "We also found ingredients to be used to devise or enhance explosives, such as fertilizer and chlorine cylinders," Odierno told Pentagon reporters by video-link. Insurgents have detonated three trucks carrying chlorine canisters since late January. The most recent attack occurred Wednesday in Baghdad, killing five people and sending more than 55 to hospitals. On Tuesday, a bomb planted on a chlorine tanker left more than 150 villagers stricke nnorth of the capital. More than 60 were still under medical care Wednesday. A suicide bomber driving a dump truck filled with explosives and a chlorine tank also struck a quick reaction force and Iraqi police in the Sunni city of Ramadi on Jan. 28, killing 16 people. Jeremy Binnie, an analyst with Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center, noted that it is unclear how many in the attacks died from the explosions and how many were victims of the chlorine itself. U.S. and Iraqi officials pledged to adapt to fight the evolving insurgent tactics. "What is obvious to us is that the terrorists are adopting new tactics to cause panic and as many casualties as they can among civilians," Iraqi military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Qassim Moussawi, told reporters. "But our plans also are always changeable and flexible to face the enemies' new tactics." Sarasota Private Investigator bill Warner _________________________________________________ Blackburn car dealer admits terror bomb plot By Charlotte Bradshaw A BLACKBURN car dealer has admitted being involved in an Al Qaeda terrorist bomb plot. Junade Feroze, 31, of Malham Gardens, Blackburn, was one of four men who pleaded guilty to plotting against the UK and the United States. The men admitted conspiracy to cause explosions together with convicted Al Qaeda terrorist Dhiren Barot and others unknown between February 19, 2001, and August 4, 2004. Community leaders spoke of their shock at his guilt and police insisted that everyone needed to remain vigilant about the terrorism threat in our communities. Feroze worked buying and selling cars at Lower Audley Tyre Centre, at the junction of Copperfield Street and Bennington Street, which is owned by his brother. He was arrested in August 2004 when his gold Mercedes was swooped on by armed undercover officers from the Metropolitan Police in Preston Old Road, Cherry Tree. After Feroze pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court yesterday (4/26/2007), Coun Yusuf Jan-Virmani, who represents Audley, said: "I knew his dad and his brother, and I am very surprised by this as he was brought up here in Blackburn. "I would not have thought that he would have done something like this, but that is the problem with youngsters now. "This is very sad for Blackburn and bad news for the town we just need to work hard against this." Coun Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said: "You never know what is going on inside someone's mind. "He came across completely differently to members of the community, but then you never know what someone's intentions are. "Reality is reality, if he's pleaded guilty then he must be guilty." Chief Superintendent David Mallaby said: "We all need to remain vigilant as terrorism can affect all our communities. "Our highest priority is keeping everyone safe and we will do our utmost to help the public recognise signs of suspicious behaviour so that they in turn can help defeat terrorism. "The trust which has developed between the police and members of the community is something we should all be proud of. "In high profile operations such as this, it is inevitable that arrests will be made and sometimes people will be released without charge. "Whilst I recognise there are concerns surrounding this, I do not agree that it has damaged community relations and in fact I feel it strengthened the relation ships which already exist between the police and our local communities." Coun Arshid Mahmood, who represents Corporation Park ward, said he thought that most of the Muslim population in Blackburn woud be "shocked at anything which is connected to terrorist activity." He said: "We can never be too careful about what goes on around us, especially in the conditions we find ourselves in today." Community leaders and priests, in mosques across Blackburn, had spoken out against younger people inciting tensions, since the arrests were made, said Coun Mahmood. Feroze pleaded guilty along with Omar Abdul Rehman, 23, of Bushey, Hertforshire, Mohammed Zia Ul Taq, 28, of Paddington, west London, Abdul Aziz Jalil, 33, of Luton. Barot, 32, from Willesden, north London, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder in relation to the alleged plot last year. Two further men Nadeem Tarmohammed, 28, of Willesden, and Quaisar Shaffi, 28, also of Willesden are due back in court on Monday. Shaffi denies the charge of conspiracy to cause explosions while Tarmohammed has yet to enter a plea. Last week another co- defendant Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, 27, admitted the same charge at Woolwich Crown Court. The group are expected to be sentenced in June. Canon Simon Bessant, director of missions at the Blackburn Diocese of the Church of England, said: "It is important we get across the message that the majority of Asian-heritage people live honourable, respectable lives and what has happened in this case should not change anyone's minds." Coun Kate Hollern, leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: "There is no role for extremism of any kind in a modern and civilised society." Leader of the House of Commons and Blackburn MP, Jack Straw, declined to comment until the case was concluded. A spokesman for Lower Audley Tyre Centre also declined to comment when told of the news. 2:21pm Thursday 26th April 2007 ________________________________________________ Group stole luxury cars to order then shipped to Dubai Five men have admitted recruiting thieves from across the UK to steal 142 high- performance cars worth £6m. Mohammed Ilyas, 43, Majid Ghouse, 34, Naveed Parvez, 28, Mansha Khan, 34, Mohammed Dita, 34. The cars were being stolen to order for an international crime ring, Manchester Crown Court was told. A list of specific cars was drawn up by the men, from Manchester, London and Essex, for export to the Middle East. The men ran the operation for more than a year and although a lengthy police investigation was carried out only 65 of the cars have since been recovered. Kent Constabulary, Essex, Merseyside and Greater Manchester Police, were all involved in the investigation. Thieves stole mostly Mercedes and BMWs, valued at between £20,000 and £80,000, and also a top-of-the- range Maserati Italian Sports Coupe. It is estimated that in the operation, which began in June 2002, the gang made about £10,000 profit on each car, with an overall take of £1.5m. They were arrested on 28 August 2003 after detectives from Greater Manchester Police's vehicle fraud unit carried out a 14-month undercover operation codenamed Barton. The thieves stole vehicles from across the UK and exported them via shipping containers to destinations including Sharja in the United Arab Emirates. Legitimate shipping agents were duped into believing the containers held legitimate cargo to be exported via Dubai and Singapore. Sentenced later; Mohammed Ilyas, 43, of Albert Road, Ilford, Essex; Majid Ghouse, 34, of Strone Road in Forest Gate, London; Naveed Parvez, 28, of Able Street in Burnley, Lancashire; Mansha Khan, 34, of Slade Grove in Longsight, Manchester; Mohammed Dita, 34, of Great Western Street in Moss Side, Manchester all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to handling stolen cars. Ilyas was remanded in custody and the other men were released on bail to return to Manchester Crown Court for sentencing on 21 July, Sarasota Private Investigator bill Warner _________________________________________________ Md. Raids a Part Of International Car Theft Bust, 9 Arrested in Connection With Alleged Export Ring. 72 stolen vehicles worth about $2.7 million were recovered by police in New Jersey last week. By Candace Rondeaux Washington Post Staff Writer August 07 2007 Authorities staged three raids in suburban Maryland in an effort to break up a major East Coast car-theft ring that allegedly stole more than 1,000 luxury vehicles in the past year and shipped them to West Africa and the Middle East. Mercedes with high-end stereos, BMWs with slick leather interiors, Hummers with shiny rims -- all were taken from dealerships and suburban driveways, carjacked off the street or stolen by other means in the Washington area, New York and New Jersey. They were packed onto container ships docked at New Jersey ports and shipped abroad, authorities said. The investigation led to the arrest last week of Upper Marlboro resident Solomon O. Asare, 31, a native of Ghana who is described by authorities as a ringleader. Eight others have also been arrested, including a Gaithersburg man who was taken into custody Friday at Dulles International Airport. They were detained on a variety of charges linking them to the alleged conspiracy with tendrils in Prince George's, Howard and Montgomery counties and Northern Virginia. "This is the largest auto-theft fencing ring I've seen since I've been on the force," said Lt. Rick Nuel, a 22-year veteran and chief of the auto unit with the New Jersey State Police, one of 16 agencies involved in the probe. "When you're looking at the amount of cars going out and the amount of contacts they had, it's huge." In West Africa, where luxury cars are scarce and import taxes are high, the vehicles are resold for up to twice their retail value, netting members of the elaborate theft-for- export ring millions of dollars. In some instances, authorities said, the stolen vehicles have wound up in the hands of power elites in Ghana and elsewhere. "Sometimes, it's almost chic," said Ben Jillett, a car-theft investigator with the Insurance Bureau of Canada, who has worked with federal and local authorities in the United States to track similar rings. "It's in vogue to run around in these countries with a license plate on that says Maryland on it or Florida on it." The alleged ring was first detected by Prince George's investigators about a year ago, according to a law enforcement source who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. The county has for years ranked among the top jurisdictions in the nation for car theft, and it accounts for more than half the vehicle thefts in the state each year. In some respects, the alleged ring embodied the hierarchy of a large, legitimate business. Middlemen known as fences acted as brokers between the car thieves and ringleaders. The ringleaders arranged large-scale shipments to ports in Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and several other countries, authorities said. Last week, New Jersey authorities arrested Asare and another man in a stolen car on the New Jersey Turnpike, police said. Investigators have alleged that Asare used his connections in New York, New Jersey and abroad to arrange shipments of stolen cars and to smooth the way for sales abroad by bribing customs officials in Africa. Investigators found $11,000 in the car, money that they believe was to be used to purchase stolen vehicles, according to New Jersey State Police. Asare was charged in New Jersey with trafficking, fencing and receiving stolen property and could face charges in Maryland, Nuel said. "If you have the contacts, there's a lot of money to be made, and he seemed to have a lot of contacts in Africa," Nuel said. About 6:30 a.m. yesterday, a team of Maryland State Police and at least one federal agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on Asare's well-kept brick colonial home in the 10600 block of Birdie Lane in Upper Marlboro. The normal calm and quiet of the solidly middle-class suburban subdivision was broken by the sound of two officers pounding on Asare's door. Hearing no answer, officers in flak jackets slipped past a shiny black 2005 Nissan Maxima parked in the driveway. They pried open the home's garage door, entering with their guns drawn. An officer at the scene said they expected to spend several hours collecting evidence. Investigators also raided a commercial lot and an unknown location in Howard County. Investigators are reluctant to estimate how long the ring operated or how many luxury cars allegedly passed through Asare's network to ports in Africa. But Nuel said 72 stolen vehicles worth about $2.7 million were recovered by police in New Jersey last week -- including several stolen from Maryland. Investigators believe, however, that that number represents only a fraction of the car ring's actual take. "The [car] fencing operation is becoming a huge issue in the African countries," said Greg Terp, commander of the Miami-Dade police auto-theft unit. "It's a lucrative business. And, according to some of the information we've learned, you have a number of people in the various governments there driving BMWs and Mercedes that are stolen and shipped out of the Port of Elizabeth and Newark." Investigators believe Asare traveled with at least two other men from the Washington area to West Africa on errands for the ring, the law enforcement source said. One of the men, Vincent Robinson, is allegedly linked to the theft of more than 30 brand-new, high-end vehicles from dealerships in Fairfax, Montgomery and Baltimore counties, the source said. Fairfax Detective John Carney declined to discuss details of Robinson's case or his possible connections to the ring. But he confirmed that Robinson allegedly gained access to keys to the cars after he was hired at several local dealerships, including at least one in Fairfax. Police there took Robinson into custody June 1 on charges of auto theft, Carney said. On Friday, authorities also arrested Macki Tall of Gaithersburg at Dulles International Airport after he returned from Switzerland. Like Asare, Tall, 27, allegedly used connections in Africa to arrange the shipment and sale of stolen cars, Nuel said. Tall is believed to have purchased many of the stolen vehicles in East Orange, N.J. Nuel said more arrests are expected in the Washington area and elsewhere. Staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report. _______________________________________________ "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout sold guns to Al-Qaida and the Taliban Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer dubbed the "Merchant of Death," (see here) was arrested in Thailand and charged in New York on Thursday with trying to sell weapons to Colombian rebels, officials said. Bout was widely believed to be a model for the arms dealer portrayed by Nicholas Cage in the 2005 movie "Lord of War." British intelligence officials found evidence in Afghanistan that Bout had shipped arms to the Taliban and al Qaeda, as well as circumstantial evidence that he shipped weapons technology into Iraq. And the U.S. government said it received information that Bout profited $50 million from supplying the Taliban with military equipment when they ruled Afghanistan. Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout born January 13, 1967; Owner, Great Lakes Business Company, Compagnie A rienne des Grands Lacs; Bukavu Aviation Transport, and Business Air Services and Dimitri Igorevich Popov born February 13, 1961; General Manager, Great Lakes Business Company and Compagnie A rienne des Grands Lacs and Douglas Mpano born December 28, 1965; Manager, Great Lakes Business Company and Compagnie A rienne des Grands Lacs Bout, the target of U.S. sanctions, was charged with conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said in New York. Bout's associate Andrew Smulian, 46, was charged on Thursday with conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization. Smulian's whereabouts where not immediately clear.A former Soviet air force officer born in Tajikistan in 1967, according to Russian media reports, Bout was picked up at a Bangkok hotel after entering Thailand on Feb. 29. Police were searching for an associate. He was attempting "to procure weapons for Colombia's FARC rebels," Thai police said in an arrest report. He has run a network of air cargo companies in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and the United States. Although Bout has been investigated by police in several countries, he has never been prosecuted for arms dealing. He has been accused of trafficking weapons through a series of front companies to war-wracked Central and West Africa since the early 1990s. UN reports say he set up a network of more than 50 aircraft around the world, owned by small, tightly controlled companies including Bukavu Aviation Transport, Business Air Services and Great Lakes Business Co. According to the United Nations and the U.S. Treasury Department, Bout has sold or brokered arms that have helped fuel wars in Afghanistan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan. __________________________________________________________________ Ex-Terror Detainee, Murat Kurnaz, Says U.S. Tortured Him Tells 60 Minutes He Was Held Underwater, Shocked And Suspended From the Ceiling see link here This guy, MURAT kURNAZ, is a German Islamic radical, 3 weeks after 9/11 a Taliban leader, Sofyen Ben Amor, paid for his plane ticket to fly to Pakistan and eventually get into Afghansitan to join up with the Taliban, he also links to members of the 9/11 Hamburg cell such as Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh. "Despite these facts being made public, these facts have had astonishingly little impact on the coverage of Kurnaz's case in the German media. Perhaps more astonishingly still, they have been entirely ignored by the American news media." See German BKA Dossier (HERE) on supposed terrorist Murat Kurnaz , he links directly to the Taliban ! See his tear jerker of a story at 60 Minutes and see video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yisr3-evlTg The German BKA Dossier on Murat Kurnaz http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/blog/blog.aspx?id=869 John Rosenthal 21 Jun 2007 WPR Blog As of 2002, Germany's Federal Office of Criminal Investigations (BKA) classified former Guantanamo inmate and current German media star, Murat Kurnaz, as a security risk. (On Kurnaz in the German media, see the accompanying article "Guantanamo Tales.") This classification was based on a series of police findings linking Kurnaz to Islamic extremist milieus in Germany: including to persons who are linked in turn to the "Hamburg Cell" that planned the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The relevant facts were presented by BKA Deputy Director Bernhard Falk in March, during hearings held before a German parliamentary committee investigating the Kurnaz case. They have been summarized in a March 22 press release issued by committee member Thomas Oppermann of the Social Democratic Party. Despite their being made public, these facts have had astonishingly little impact on the coverage of Kurnaz's case in the German media and, in particular, on the customary depiction of Kurnaz as an "innocent" victim who, in the words of Luzia Braun of German public television ZDF, "had nothing to do with terrorism." Perhaps more astonishingly still, they have been entirely ignored by the American news media. In order to rectify the latter situation, World Politics Review here presents a complete English translation of Thomas Oppermann's summary of the contents of the BKA file on Murat Kurnaz: The classification of Murat Kurnaz as a security risk was based on the following findings, among others: On October 3, 2001 - three weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks - Kurnaz set off to Pakistan with his friend Selcuk Bilgin, without saying goodbye to his family or informing his school. He broke off his course of studies in midstream. According to his mother, he purchased heavy boots and two pairs of binoculars immediately prior to his departure. Kurnaz's and Bilgin's airplane tickets were paid for by Sofyen Ben Amor. In a telephone conversation with the Bremen-based preacher of hate Ali Miri that was wiretapped by the police, Ben Amor described himself as a "Taliban." According to his mother, in the weeks prior to his departure, Kurnaz "was brainwashed" by Ali Miri at the Abu-Bakr Mosque in Bremen. The Bremen police continue to assume still today that Kurnaz was radicalized by Ali Miri. Also according to the assessment of both [the German foreign intelligence service] the BND and [the German domestic intelligence service] the BfV, Kurnaz's biography follows a typical path of radicalization and "awakening." Independently of one another, two direct witnesses have declared to the Bremen police that Kurnaz approved of the September 11 terrorist attacks, describing them as "God's will." On October 3, 2001, the brother of Selcuk Bilgin notified the Federal Police [which is responsible for border security in Germany] that Selcuk "is following a friend to Afghanistan, in order to fight." His later attempts to relativize this declaration have been dismissed as not credible by the police. The wife of Bilgin, moreover, has confirmed to Kurnaz's mother that Bilgin and Kurnaz wanted to go to Afghanistan. Bilgin was arrested at the airport and thus prevented from embarking on his voyage with Kurnaz. Later, in 2003, the police determined that he was continuing to try to recruit young, inexperienced Muslims for Jihad at the Abu-Bakr Mosque. Thus Ali T., who on April 25, 2003 hijacked a bus in Bremen, stated to the police that Bilgin had awakened in him the desire to become a Mujahideen through conversations and prayers and by showing him propaganda videos. According to Ali T., Bilgin promised that he would have him trained as a fighter in Pakistan or Afghanistan, just as he had done in the past with Murat Kurnaz. The training, Bilgin is reported to have said, would be financed by Al Qaida. The Bremen police thus assumed that after his failed attempt to travel with Kurnaz, Bilgin had been promoted from a prospective fighter to a "Recruiter/Logistics Specialist." According to police investigations, there are numerous links between the Taliban Sofyen Ben Amor, who purchased Kurnaz's plane tickets, and the "Hamburg Cell" [which planned the 9/11 attacks]. Thus, for example, Ben Amor's telephone number was found in an address book that was seized during a Hamburg raid carried out as part of the Federal District Attorney's investigation against, among others, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh in connection with the attacks of September 11, 2001. The police have determined, moreover, that up until September 11, 2001, Sofyen Ben Amor frequently withdrew money in the vicinity of the Al-Quds Mosque in Hamburg. It was at this mosque that the "Hamburg Cell" formed around Mohammad Atta. Finally, there are also numerous pieces of evidence in the file that indicate that Ben Amor, Bilgin, and Kurnaz have links to Mohammad Haydar Zammar, one of the most important recruiters of the "Hamburg Cell." ___________________________________________________________________ Sarasota Private Investigator Bill Warner's Interview with the aunt of murdered Sarah and Amina Said http://wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com/ 5/005/2008....Yaser Abdel Said the accused Honor Killing Muslim father of Sarah and Amina Said is still on the run after the New Years Day murder of his daughters in Irving Texas. The Dalls Morning news has reported on the murder of Sarah and Amina Said as a Muslim Honor Killing by the father Yaser Abdel Said, see report of Jan 13, 2008 here. Following information was obtained from an exclusixe interview with the aunt "Gail" of the two murdered girls, Sarah and Amina Said on 4/23/2008. Accused murderer Yaser Abdel Said had two passports, a USA passport and an Egyptian passport. Yaser Abdel Said had over $9,000 in cash hidden (from State welfare investigators.. no checking accounts) in his rental house that he shared with his wife Patricia, son Islam and the two murdered girls. Patricia Said had taken $5,000 when she split on or about 12/25/2007 with the two girls, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18, when she returned on or about 1/01/2008, she brought back most of the $5,000. Son Islam, gets a monthly check form the State of Texas, some sort of mental disabilities, supposed to have been home schooled for the last 5 or 6 years. On the day of the murder 1/01/2008, Patricia Said (she drives an older mini-van) took Amina from her boyfriends house to meet Yaser at his cab, near the Said rental house, Sarah was in the front seat of the cab, they (the girls) never went into the Said rental apartment. Yaser Said did borrow the cab he used to kill the girls, he owned no vehicles, his only work in the last 8 years or so was driving cab, Yaser Said was flying under the radar of the State of Texas. On the day of the murder 1/01/2008, Yaser Abdel Said took the Egyptian Passport and the $9,000 in cash and nothing else and then took the girls for a ride in the cab (pre-meditated and a plan was in play). Yaser Abdel Said called brother Mohsen, on his cell phone, after the murders to meet for "coffee" (trouble meeting, need help), the 3 other brothers are tight with Yaser and would help, as per Aunt Gail. The investigation so far has produced few solid leads as to Yaser Abdel Said's whereabouts, and they (cops) fear he may have fled the country, perhaps even to his native Egypt. _____________________________________________________________________________ Dotster under fire for Web content Tuesday, May 06, 2008 By COURTNEY SHERWOOD, Columbian staff writer A group of self-described anti-terrorist vigilantes has put the heat on Vancouver-based Dotster Inc. for hosting an Arabic- and Somali- language Web site that frequently praises leaders in Somalia’s al-Qaida organization. Dotster officials said they pass along all complaints to law enforcement agencies, but unless required by law, the company does not remove its customers’ content from the Internet. The site under fire, kataaib.net, is associated with the Shabab movement in war- and genocide-torn Somalia, according to reports from the BBC and Reuters. In addition to praising Islamist militants, the site lists news about battles and bombings in Somalia. “Kataaib” is Arabic for “Brigades.” Florida resident Bill Warner, who describes himself as an anti-terrorist vigilante, is among a collection of online activists who want to use public pressure on Dotster to get kataaib.net shut down. Dotster, a Web registration and hosting company, generates revenue by hosting Web sites. It has hosted kataaib.net since April 13, 2007, according to Internet records. “The actual terrorists are out in the field blowing things up,” Warner said. “But there are groups like this one that associate with al-Qaida through Web sites, that help promote the ideology, help find new recruits and help the effort to support terrorism.” “We are not in a position to judge and be a jury on what content may be legal or acceptable,” said Brian Unruh, chief financial officer at Dotster. He would not comment specifically about kataaib.net, except to say, “We feel we have escalated this to the right authorities.” Complaints routine Dotster routinely receives complaints about Web sites it hosts, and evaluates each complaint before forwarding on potentially criminal sites to law enforcement agencies, Unruh said. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to freedom of speech and expression, and for that reason Dotster attempts to be very careful about balancing the rights of its customers with other concerns, Unruh said. “We don’t censor people based on what they say, as long as it’s legal,” he said. “We may not agree with some activities our customers do, but we are not in a position to be judge and jury. If the authorities issue an order to take down a site, we follow that order.” The legal process that might eventually lead to an order to take down kataaib.net is too slow, Warner said. He hopes that attention and a public outcry may change Dotster officials’ minds. “It’s not freedom of speech,” Warner said. “This site should not be hosted in Vancouver.” Courtney Sherwood covers high-tech businesses. Reach her at 360-735- 4553 or courtney.sherwood@columbian.com Monday May 05, 2008.. Should Dotster continue to host a Web site that frequently praises Islamic militants? On one side: The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to freedom of speech and expression, and law enforcement agencies have so far not deemed the content of the site to be illegal, so it should stay. On another side: By praising Al-Qaeda and promoting a radical Islamic ideology, the site supports terrorists and should therefore be shut down. The back story: A group of self-described anti-terrorist vigilantes has put the heat on Vancouver-based Dotser Inc. for hosting an Arabic- and Somali- language Web site that frequently praises leaders in Somalia’s Al-Qaeda organization. Dotster officials said that the Web hosting company passes along all complaints to law enforcement agencies and takes down sites when required by law, but the company does not otherwise remove its customers' pages from the Internet. The site under fire, kataaib.net, is associated with the Shabab movement in war- and genocide-torn Somalia, according to reports from the BBC and Reuters. In addition to praising Islamist militants, the site lists news about battles and bombings in Somalia. “Kataaib” is Arabic for “Brigades.” -- Courtney Sherwood ____________________________________________________________________________ A Digital Haven for Terrorists on Our Own Shores? Monday, May 5, 2008 Mainstream Internet companies a home for terrorist websites, TAU study finds Prof. Niv Ahituv If you use one of America's top Internet service providers, you may share server space with an organization that enables worldwide terrorism, says a new study by Tel Aviv University. A workshop on terrorist organizations and the Internet was organized for the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) by the Netvision Institute for Internet Studies (NIIS) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis & Forecasting, both of Tel Aviv University. Berlin's Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research (NEXUS), affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin, also participated in the workshop. The findings were presented in Berlin to a closed audience of high- ranking representatives from NATO in February 2008. Organizing and Recruiting Online Enlisted by NATO officials to study the web activity of terrorist organizations, researchers found that some of the world's most dangerous organizations are operating on American turf. Hezbollah, the Islamic Jihad, and al-Qaeda all have websites hosted by popular American Internet service providers -- the same companies that most of us use every day. "These websites hosted in America are targeting Muslim mothers in America, Canada, the U.K. and all over the world, convincing them that being 'Shahid' or a suicide bomber is particularly good and very important for their sons," says Prof. Niv Ahituv of the NIIS. Available in English, Arabic, Spanish and other languages, the websites also provide tutorials on bomb building and enlist impressionable American and British Muslim women and men into a life of terror activity. Free-Speech for Terrorists Prof. Ahituv acknowledges the dilemma that America’s First Amendment creates -- free-speech protections may foster propaganda directed towards the U.S. "America's First Amendment protects these websites from being shut down," he says, recognizing the irony of waging a war on terror when some of the most dangerous propaganda is being created at home. According to the study, the Islamic Jihad operates 15 websites in Arabic and English, hosted by both U.S. and Canadian companies. Hamas operates 20 websites in eight languages, a portion of which are based in the U.S and Canada, while Hezbollah operates 20 websites, also hosted by companies in the U.S. and Canada. Limited Successes and American Law The FBI has shut down a few websites, but American law prevents the closure of most, says Prof. Ahituv. Terrorists could coordinate a 9/11- scale attack via these websites, he warns. There are, however, some people who believe that leaving those websites intact is desired in order to monitor content, trends and policy. It is hard to tell which side is right, adds Prof. Ahituv. An issue of great concern is that terrorist organizations are using the Internet to bypass the role of the established press, he notes. "Since those organizations do not possess TV stations, radio stations and printed press outlets, they use the Internet to impart their views and events to the public and to the media." For more information, see the Netvision Institute for Internet Studies, http://www.niis.tau.ac.il/. _____________________________________________________________________________ BOS SMITH'S BROOKLYN FAIRY TALE Masjid Al-Taqwa Mosque, Siraj Wahaj Nabbed and held captive by Brooklyn Jihadis! By OnTheWeb: ">Bos Smith Monday, April 28, 2008............. (BOOK COMING OUT) (Editor’s Note: If ">Bos Smith, who holds a law degree from Wake Forest University can be hauled away by an angry group of angry Muslims in Islamic garb to the basement of a mosque where a group of 20 “security guards” in karate suits all for taking a photo, what about a tourist taking pictures for his travelogue? The working man’s lament, “It’s a free country, isn’t it?” doesn’t seem to work anymore.) In the following fairy tale, Mr. Bos Smith makes mention of 20 karate students who whisked him off the street in to the Masjid Al-Taqwa Mosque at 3:00pm on a Sunday afternoon, there are karate lessons held at the Mosque but they are all held at night from 7:00pm to 9:30pm, see here. Mr. Bos Smith makes note of the leader Ali Kareem who is the Karate instructor at the Mosque, Mr. Ali Kareem also is the instructor for the NYPD special weapons and tactics police unit, see Ali Kareem's video here . There were no Police reports filed with the NYPD in any of the Brooklyn Precincts as to a supposed kidnapping by Muslim members of the Masjid Al-Taqwa of a "white" guy on any weekend Saturday & Sunday of 4/27 or Saturday & Sunday 4/20 or Saturday & Sunday 4/13 or Saturday & Sunday 4/06/2008. There is no record of any such incident as happening but in the mind of Mr. Bos Smith. There were no Newspaper accounts in the NY Daily News or the NY Post of any such abduction of a "white" guy by Muslims from a Brooklyn Mosque, "are you kidding me this would have been Page One if it actually happened". Following is Mr. Bos Smith's Brooklyn Fairy Tale A tree grew in Brooklyn. No longer. It has been uprooted by the Masjid Al-Taqwa and other radical mosques that have sprouted up like huge mechanical mushrooms throughout the borough. If you tarry in front of the Masjid Al-Taqwa in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district and dare to take a photo, you might get hauled away by a group of angry Muslims in Islamic attire to the basement of the facility where a group of twenty “security guards” in karate suits will interrogate you. This sounds preposterous (BECAUSE IT IS). But it happened on a weekend in late April at 3:00 in the afternoon. Ali Kareem, the head of security for Siraj Wahaj’s mosque, conducted the grilling. A small, muscular man with a wispy black beard that has been dyed red with henna, Kareem demanded to know the reason why a trio of kafirs had dared to photograph the building on a public street without securing his permission. He further insisted on securing our identities and obtaining our motives for such a violation of Islamic space. Being surrounded by a group of militant guards in a mosque basement from which there is no means of escape is not a comforting place to be for a Wall Street financier. We tried to explain that we found the neighborhood with its halal meat vendors and food stores; Islamic dress shops, featuring the latest styles in burqas and hijabs; Muslim souvenir outlets, replete with bumper stickers stating “Don’t Be Caught Dead Without Islam”; and Middle Eastern restaurants offering a variety of goat dishes to be rather quaint and interesting. This explanation was not sufficient. Kareem was impatient and did not want a detailed explanation of the reason for our excursion (simple sight-seeing) or a graphic account of the sights we had seen and photographed. “I ask the questions here,” he said, “and you provide the answers.” Realizing that we were in a bit of a pickle, my companion explained that we were interested in various religions and knew Siraj Wahaj, the imam of the mosque, was a prominent Muslim figure whom we would like to interview for a news outlet. This didn’t work too well since we could not produce a business card from a wacko blog, let alone credentials from a national publication. At last, we blurted out that we were admirers of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) and wanted to obtain information about conversion. We were even knowledgeable enough to blurt out “Salaam” and “Allahu akbar.” The last utterance seemed to be the “Open Sesame” that got us out of the basement and back to Bedford Street, where we managed to take a picture of the mosque before hailing a cab and making a getaway. The experience was disconcerting. Surely, anyone who takes a picture of St. Patrick’s Cathedral or the Riverside Church is not hauled off to a basement for questioning by a threatening figure in a karate uniform and a band of Ninjas. What is taking place within Masjid Al-Taqwa? And what about Siraj Wahaj, the celebrated imam of this mosque who claims to be a moderate? Masjid Al-Taqwa at 1226 Bedford Street was an abandoned clothing store, which Wahaj purchased at an auction in 1979 for $30,000 with cash from oil- rich Saudis. The interior is divided into spacious, windowless rooms that have been painted green and beige. At Friday afternoon prayers the meeting room is crammed with hundreds of congregants. Some show up in do-rag stocking caps and Sean John sweatshirts; others wear finely embroidered, authentic- looking Muslim caps and flowing robes of crimson and gold. About half of the attendees are African-Americans. The others are immigrants from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Worshipers range from Brooklyn street bums to the local celebrities, such as former heavy-weight champion Mike Tyson. The place has played host to a number of notorious exponents of radical Islam, including Clement Rodney Hampton-El (Dr. Rashid), a key player in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Mr. Hampton-El is presently cooling his heels in a federal slammer since he was found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Mr. Hampton-El, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, fought as a mujahadeen under Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the holy war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Upon his return, Hampton-El was hailed as a hero by members of the mosque. Imam Wahaj has said that he was sought out by young and old alike for spiritual advice as an “elder” in the community. Wahaj, in fact, appeared as a character witness for Hampton El when the former mujahadeen stood trial before Judge Michael Mukasey in New York’s Federal District Court on charges of seditious conspiracy and attempted bombing. Hampton-El is currently serving thirty-five years in a supermax prison for America’s most dangerous inmates. Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman visited Masjid AL-Taqwa on many occasions while serving as the imam of the nearby Masjid al-Fooqra at 554 Atlantic Avenue, several blocks from Masjid At-Taqwi. On the second floor of Rahman’ s mosque, al Qaeda had opened an office under the name of the al-Kifah Refugee Center. It became a favorite haunt for members of Wahaj’s congregation. Rahman also spoke on occasion at Masjid AL-Taqwa. In one speech, the fiery sheikh suggested that Muslims should rob banks to benefit Islam. In 1995, Sheikh Rahman was hauled into court as the alleged architect of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and for planning to blow up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, and buildings throughout Manhattan. At his side was his good friend Siraj Wahaj who provided testimony of the sheik’s sterling character. In a Feb. 2, 1995, letter to defense lawyers in the landmarks-bombing case, then-U. S. Attorney Mary Jo White named about 170 people as “un-indicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators.” Imam Wahaj was on the list. Other infamous characters reportedly have made their way to the Bedford Street mosque, including Imam Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, whose son Adnan has been singled out by the Justice Department as “the next Muhammad Atta.” Gulshair, it turns out, served a stint as imam at another radical Brooklyn mosque - - the now defunct Masjid Nur a-Islam, at 21 Church Street. Another visitor, according to informed sources, was Sheikh Gilani, the founder of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, who served as the imam of yet another Brooklyn mosque - - the Yasin Masjid at 777 Saratoga Avenue. This infamous mosque is now a beauty salon. From 1980 to 1995, it served as a recruiting center for the jihad and for paramilitary Islamic compounds that remain in existence throughout the country. Since the time of its inception, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has been responsible for more terror attacks on American soil (30 and counting) than all other terrorist groups combined. Members of ul- Fuqra, which maintains headquarters in Pakistan, have been convicted in US courts of such crimes as homicide, conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, grand theft, counterfeiting, and workers’ compensation fraud. Others remain leading suspects in criminal cases throughout the country, including ten unsolved assassinations and seventeen fire-bombings. Some of the better-known adherents of ul-Fuqra are Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper. But what of Wahaj? Is he an exponent of radical Islam - - a man who poses a threat to millions of Americans? He is a well-known and welcome figure in Washington, DC. He was the first Muslim cleric to offer the invocation at the opening session of Congress. He has dined with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and serves on the boards of no less than five major Muslim organizations. He has received commendations from the Brooklyn police for eradicating crime from the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. In 2003, Siraj Wahaj Day was celebrated in Brooklyn in recognition of what one borough official called a “lifetime of outstanding and meaningful achievement.” But the proof of the real Wahaj is in the proverbial pudding. In one of his sermons, Wahaj announced that the “real terrorists” are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. In another, he said, “In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.” He proclaimed that a society governed by strict Islamic law, in which adulterers are stoned to death and apostates beheaded, would be vastly superior to American democracy. To a Muslim audience in New Jersey, Wahaj advocated the idea of Muslims forming a coup to take control of the federal government. “If we are united and strong,” he said, “we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. Take my word for it, if six to eight million Muslims are united in America, the country will come to us.” His so-called “moderate” interpretation of the Qu’ran became clear by this remark: “If Allah says 100 strikes, 100 strikes it is. If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death, through the Prophet Muhammad, then you stone them to death, because it’s the obedience of Allah and his messenger—nothing personal.” Wahaj informed an audience of black women wearing Muslim head coverings in Orlando, Fla., that Islam condones a man’s marrying up to four wives, and that this rule, when introduced in the seventh century, served as a restriction on arrangements involving even more wives per husband. And there are the national organizations to which Wahaj remains affiliated. He served as emir (president) of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which has been charged with funneling millions to terror groups, and as an advisory board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been labeled by author and counter-terrorism expert Steven Emerson as a “radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.” All this may be well and good, save for the fact that Wahaj and his mosque retains a small army not of brown-shirts but black-belts who now claim the right to collar ordinary citizens on the sidewalk and to haul them off for interrogation. You’re only safe in Brooklyn at this writing if you say your prayers - - meaning, of course, the Basmalah. (">Bos Smith holds a law degree from Wake Forest University. He serves in the securities division of a major Wall Street investment bank. The research for this article was conducted in preparation of (A NEW BOOK) "">Within the Belly of the Beast: Jihad in America". SELL THE BOOK ! Questions and comments may be directed to ">mail@bossmith.org. Posted 04/28 at 08:12 AM Email ___________________________________________________________________________ I tip them (The Columbian Newspaper) off on an al-Qaeda website hosted in Vancouver WA, now they slam me ! The Columbian newspaper now runs an attack piece against me (Bill Warner) because I complained about their softball article on the severity of the Somalia website kataaib.net that is the mouthpiece for the |